Each year, drunk people are selected to participate in torturous games the morning after a big night out. There's no sunglasses, no water, and no headache medicine. "The Hungover Games," a film that manages to merge the premises of both "The Hunger Games" and "The Hangover" and throw in references to "Ted," "Django Unchained," "The Lord of the Rings," "Carrie," "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and whatever else crossed the writers' fevered brains during the probably very drunken "development process."
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Absolutely the worst movie.
A different way of telling a story
This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
It's weird that the cast of the movie look a lot like the original cast of The Hangover. Uuuuggghh... why though?
Yes, there are "parody" movies much worse than anything the Seltzerberg team has done. Hell, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer wish they could sink this low. I hesitate to call these parody movies, as it is more fitting to call them a cluster of gratuitous dick jokes, random references to much better movies, and gags with every bodily function known to man. Because who needs jokes when you've got a bunch of sex toys at your disposal? I long for the days of Mel Brooks and the Zucker Brothers to come back. From Josh Stolberg, the writer of Piranha 3D and the god-awful romantic comedy Good Luck Chuck, the Hungover Games starts off with the basic template of The Hangover, the dudes wake up on a train, go to compete in the Hunger Games with characters from movies that were popular at the time and it's all downhill from there. Oddly enough, the main four guts were pretty good. I mean, as unfunny and forgettable their lines are, they were the only good actors in the entire movie. Everyone else knew this movie was garbage and wanted to get their paycheck as quickly as possible. This honestly begs the questions, what did Jamie Kennedy, Tara Reid (a couple of semi-decent actors), classic Hollywood actor Robert Wagner, Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce Jenner) and Sophie Dee (my favorite porn star) see in this movie? Did they all really think a movie where an obnoxious teddy bear teabags a black dude would advance their careers? Even a terrible movie like the Starving Games made laugh at least once. It had one good joke and that was it. With this movie, I didn't laugh at all. How on earth does The Hungover Games have 3.7 stars on IMDB? If you guys can't see what's wrong with these awful movies and their empty, pandering, bottom of the barrel nature, then you're as stupid as these unfunny and untalented filmmakers think you are. The Hungover Games is another unfunny, unpleasant and disgusting movie and not even Sophie Dee's boobs could save it. Think about that.
Spoof films are extremely hard to pull off. The key is to be subtle, yet not so much so otherwise the audience will not understand the joke. It is imperative though to not make the gags brash and obvious. This is where the alleged comedy 'The Hungover Games' fails.This parody stars lookalikes of The Hangover series and is supposed to be a follow on from 'The Hangover Part II'. The creators of The Hangover series had no part in this spoof and if they did, there would at the very least be something to laugh about. All you can find funny here is the incompetence of the Director and writers.In the film the Wolf Pack or the lookalikes of them get drunk again the night before Doug's wedding. Unfortunately for themselves they are entered into the Hungover Games and must fight to the death against other celebrities and film characters to survive.The only positive for 'The Hungover Games' is that in the opening text it informs us that this deathly tradition came about because of "Hollywood's lack of creativity". Now that I can agree with. Yet why mock the lack of creativity when the film you have possesses the same quality? It makes no logical sense but perhaps that is the point. As the film has no logic to call its own.The many negatives for 'The Hungover Games' can be collated into a list, thus outlined below. Pop culture references are only funny if done in a tasteful manner or with some notable skill. I know it's exceedingly odd to compare this film to a Disney one and yet Hercules knew how to handle pop culture references and still achieve the key for a comedy – laughs.Other jokes are either scatological, racist, homophobic, sexist or all of the above. 'The Hungover Games' never knows when to stop in terms of the excessive nature of the gags and its relatively short run time still manages to feel far too stretched for its own good.It's especially bothersome to watch when this comedy has less jokes than 2012's 'The Hunger Games'. I'm not sure how this was managed but its an impressive achievement none the less.Even the shots in the film are sickening to look at, filmed poorly and cheaply. People who took issue with the presence of shaky camera in the first Hunger Games film had better close their eyes promptly as well as covering their ears.I could go on and on about this films problems but I really do not wish to. In fact I would rather go and watch a comedy that makes me laugh to my heart's content. With every film I see, I feel that every single one deserves a chance. With Stolberg's 'The Hungover Games' I plead you to steer clear and not give it the benefit of the doubt. Film making this shallow does not deserve to be viewed by anyone of any age.
It's really good. The Hungover Games is a fun movie to be sure with many jokes to keep you laughing. Sometimes the film drags on a joke but mostly the jokes are funny. The story consists of 4 guys who go on a stag party and wake up the next day in a dystopia future. In which they have become Tribute for The Hungover Games with people like. Teddy, Scarrie, Django, Thor, The Real Housewives of District 8 and Katnip. It also features references to Jonny Depp being in heaps of films, The Human Centipede sand Avatar.The story can be funny and can keep emotional resonance with the characters and also create a mystery reminiscent of Hangover Part II. Warning: Unlike other parodies made recently this film contains a bit of drug use, lots of nudity, violence and swearing. If you like parodies like Airplane and Loaded Weapon 1, this will surely impress.